Resource Guide:
History and Culture of Puerto Rico

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• CIA World Factbook: Puerto Rico
• Puerto Rican Law (Georgetown Library)
• Centro: Center for Puerto Rican Studies
• Yale Genocide Studies Program: Puerto Rico

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Puerto Rican Literature
• Puerto Rico--History--Indian Rebellion, 1511

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• AP News
• Bridgeman Art Library
• Britannica Enciclopedia Moderna
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopedia of Religion
• Environment Complete
• European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
• Fuente Académica
• JSTOR
• Literature Resources from Gale
• Military & Government Collection
• Religion and Philosophy Collection
• Salud en Espanol
• Wiley Online Library

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Caribbean Business
• Puerto Rico
• Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.